When Issues Arise
Lesson 45 from: The Business of Professional Photo RetouchingLisa Carney, Simon Peter Raible
When Issues Arise
Lesson 45 from: The Business of Professional Photo RetouchingLisa Carney, Simon Peter Raible
Lessons
Class Introduction
11:05 2Who Should Be a Retoucher?
09:18 3Genres of Retouching
15:25 4Comp vs Finish
06:34 5Lisa's Path to Retouching
08:51 6Simon's Path to Retouching
21:01 7Establishing a Look
16:54 8Who is The Client?
11:41What is The Job?
12:30 10How to Estimate a Job
17:25 11Pricing Your Jobs
10:34 12Billing
19:02 13Retouchers at Photoshoots Overview
08:14 14Budget Busters on Photoshoots
05:24 15Photo Coverage on Set
02:29 16Pre Shoot Communication
03:40 17Female Model Examples
12:28 18Male Model Examples
13:00 19On Set Recap
04:12 20Retouchers on Set Q&A
06:40 21Comping on Set
11:36 22Demo Images from Shoot
15:35 23Tools of The Trade
10:28 24Digital Bag of Tricks
14:14 25Getting Hired as a Retoucher
17:50 26Being a Retoucher Q&A
08:23 27Production Management
24:51 28Folder Naming Convention
08:40 29File Naming Convention
15:22 30Mark Ups
31:39 31Workflow Overview
08:44 32Computer Organization Workflow
13:39 33Software Organization & Brushes
11:47 34Libraries & Layer Management
14:31 35Office Space Workflow
07:22 36Build Your Network
07:39 37Finishing Touches Checklist
03:48 38Stacking Order
07:16 39Res-Up Files
03:42 40Sharpening Files
07:28 41Noise on Files
12:23 42File Types
04:10 43Quality Control
25:11 44Delivering Final Files
16:52 45When Issues Arise
03:01 46How to Mitigate Problems on Set
15:21 47Solving Problems in Post
08:29 48Casting Cards vs In Person
03:57 49How to Come Back from Mistakes
05:04 50Business & Promotion
08:31 51Website Portfolio Samples
12:49 52Promotion on Social Networks
05:44 53Organizations to Join
03:54 54Craftsmanship & Work Ethic
11:52Lesson Info
When Issues Arise
So now we're gonna talk about the putting out fires, the train wreck section, the train has gone off the rails, and I don't know about you, but I feel like, actually, at least 50% of my job is this. That is why people call me is 'cause something has gone wrong. We live in this world, this is kind of normal, isn't it? Problem solvers. Yeah. It got pushed, oh, they'll fix it the next step, give this away, we don't wanna deal with it. That goes down the line until we're the last ones there. Right. And it's up to us to figure it out, so we're gettin' good at it, it's just twenty years of doing it. Yeah, and what I wanna convey to you guys as an umbrella is that this is not an issue. This is not something you should run away from or have it be fearful, and I used to live a little bit in fear of this. Like, oh, oh, things have gone off the rails! Oh, things are crazy! Things are suppose to, that's why they call us or that is why I am in the industry. If they didn't need retoucher...
s, if everything was perfect on a photo set, then they're not calling me, or the amount of money we'd make on it would be, you know, minuscule. So, first of all, that picture is really gross. I am sorry, I just realized that you guys have to look at something that's not very attractive, but hey, I'm gonna talk about that in a second too. So, putting out fires. Most of our industry, our life, is putting out fires, and I wanna talk a little bit about certain subjects within that. First of all, wrong wardrobe. Now, we talked about the wrong wardrobe on the photo shoot. We are now talking about the wrong wardrobe when you are not on the photo shoot. This is, it's done. The job is in, and you are working, and you need to deal with wardrobe issues, and it is all sorts of stuff. It is often around body shaping. I'm thinking, uh, I can't say what it is. He did a job where there body strips of this one gentlemen in a bunch of material, and he had to rebuild this, was it shark skins suit? That suit, it's-- It's a herringbone suit. Herringbone suit, and he had to rebuild it from scratch, and then extension, and what they did for this is, this shot, yeah, he did the one sheet. We've been talking about one sheets, two sheets, and 1448s for the entire time. They didn't tell him they were gonna do a phone kiosk. We haven't talked about a phone kiosk. A phone kiosk is incredibly vertical. So after he'd already fixed this suit, he had to fix this suit again under an incredible time crunch, and what he has in his bag of tricks, is he knows frequency separation, he knows pattern filling, and this is how you fix bad wardrobe. Is you have tricks like frequency separation, patterns, you know how to make something out of a single shot. However, it probably cost them double 'cause they didn't tell you in the first place that there were multiple boards. So, a little of what I'm talking about with you guys right now is this ying and yang process of you gotta fix stuff but can you communicate in advance.
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Ratings and Reviews
Bill Buckley
I'm a photographer who wants to be as good at Photoshop as possible. In my field few retouchers get hired, so it's all on me. Plus my creative vision cannot be accomplished by photography alone. Not to mention that in the field, as a photographer I can't always be perfect. Photoshop to the rescue. This is possibly THE best class I've purchased on Creative Live, and they've all been good. Great insight, entertaining, well taught Lisa and Simon were awesome. Bought more LC tutorials based on this course.
Kari A. Youkey
This course just opened my world. I started ( back in the Jurassic era) as an illustrator/drafter ( pen and ink), then CAD programmer, then GIS analyst with photoshop just coming onto the scene then...got pregnant and unplugged focusing on parenting and my inner artist. I was gifted an IPad 6 years ago in the mist of my Taxi Mom years. My favorite ‘hobby’ became manipulating images and an addiction to Adobe apps. Now, In my new empty nest status, I have been trying to figure out my next direction in life....and CreativeLive has been a wonderful resource to explore different creative opportunities, feeling somewhere between photography and graphic design, I wanted to ‘paint’ photos with my tool of choice the tablet, not the camera. ...but it wasn’t until this course that I clicked with an Aha! I don’t have to become an photographer? I could get paid to retouch? Other people’s photos?.....and, I have a work history skill set that backs it up! Thank you so much for this course! Loved the instructors and how they shared their experiences and knowledge. You two have just provided a wonderful map and whole new path to explore and inspired a much needed creative spark to get back to work❤️. Thank You!
a Creativelive Student
Lisa knocked it out of the ball park again! Amazing work Lisa and Simon! I just can't find the many words that express how much I gain with each and every course she teaches. Once again, a wealth of information that was given in a down to earth manner. I absolutely love her teaching style! Amazing course Lisa and Simon, awesome job!
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